ST. LAWRENCE-BROCKVILLE 2011-12 ATHLETIC AWARDS

BROCKVILLE, Ont. - St. Lawrence College Athletics & Recreation honoured its student athletes at a special ceremony at the Brockville Memorial Centre on Thursday, March 29 and Dawn Martin and Chris Love picked up two of the biggest awards.
 
Martin, a cross-country runner from Perth, Ont. was named the Rotary Club Female Athlete of the Year for the second straight year.

The award honours Martin's second consecutive trip to the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association Cross Country Championships, where she placed ninth and helped Team Ontario to a gold medal. She earned the trip to the national competition hosted by Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C. in November, after placing fourth at the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association championships in Kingston in October.
 
She was also part of the Schooners women's cross country team that placed third at the Ontario championships and eighth at the national championships.
 
Love, a Police Foundations student from Musouche, Que., was named the Rotary Club Male Athlete of the Year. He was the captain and one of the leading scorers on the St. Lawrence College Brockville River Dog's men's hockey team, which qualified for the Challenge Cup provincial championship tournament for the first time in the team's history. Love was also an important member of the Schooners golf and men's indoor soccer teams. Love also took home the Most Valuable Player award for hockey and Most Improved Player award for golf.
 
"This was a remarkable year for SLC Brockville athletics," said Chris Paul, the Athletic and Student Life Officer for St. Lawrence College Brockville. "We were able to send our women's cross country team to a national championship and our men's hockey team to a provincial championship and those are very special achievements for small school like ours."
 
"Our award winners represent just a few of the athletes who represented SLC Brockville proudly and helped us achieve these goals."
 
Adam Brontmire, a Police Foundations student from Brockville, earned the Tyler Forkes Fair Play Award, in honour of the sportsmanship he showed while competing on the Schooners men's cross-country and indoor soccer teams.
 
Susan Filion, a cross country runner and Office Administration student from Brockville, was awarded the Schooners Athletic and Academic Achievement Award for having a Grade Point Average of 4.0.
 
The SLC Athletics Contribution Award went to Erin Armstrong, a Nursing from Athens, for her contributions to the SLC PAC teams on student events, such as the Respect Campaign.
 
Brad Craig-Pettem, the head coach of the women's indoor soccer team and assistant with the men's indoor soccer team, took home the Intramural Staff Athlete of the Year Award, for contributing to intramural events on campus.
 
Here is a list of other award winners:

OCAA All-Academics
(Awarded to athletes who maintain a Grade Point Average of 3.5 or higher while participating in a varsity sport)
Brad Davies
Matthew Lawrence
Gavin Osborne
Cherylanne Palmer
Ben Sutherland
Jurgen Von Rosen
Dawn Martin
Susan Filion
Nicole Cholette
Amanda Donaldson
Joseph Stankus
 
Golf
Most Improved Player – Chris Love
Most Valuable Player – Kurtis Lavery
Coaches' Recognition – Jarred Salisbury
 
Cross Country
Most Improved Player – John Laplante
Special Recognition Award – The whole women's team (Dawn Martin, Susan Filion, Leah Kyte, Courtney Conway, Taryn Smith, Amanda Donaldson)
Coaches' Recognition – Adam Brontmire
 
Badminton
Most Improved Player – Chrissie Baxter
Coaches' Recognition – Shaun Pollard, Jurgen Von Rosen
 
Women's Indoor Soccer
Most Improved Player – Stephanie Wright
Most Valuable Player – Melissa Cordick
Coaches' Recognition – Hannah Wijsman
 
Men's Indoor Soccer
Most Improved Player – John Laplante
Most Valuable Player – Jason Smellink
Coaches' Recognition – Ben Sutherland
 
Men's Hockey
Most Improved Player – Dylan Maud
Most Valuable Player – Chris Love
Coaches' Recognition – Steve Gendron

Source: St. Lawrence College